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MindsOnLoan · Post by **MindsOnLoan** » 4/21/2009, 4:19 pm

Teenagers? Honestly, who does that? Here's to hoping they got pink-eye, or hepititus.

Shanae · Post by **Shanae** » 4/21/2009, 9:39 pm

...so I think I'm starting to get pink-eye. (No lie. My eye was red, itchy, and had lots of gunk in it. I think it's getting better now.)

Gah, in English class, our teacher told us to write a rhyming couplet about either:
a) How tough it is to be a teenager or
b) How great it is to be a teenager.

I chose a, of course. Writing about that sort of thing doesn't bother me, but when you have to make it into a rhyming couplet? Ehhh... feels like I should just write down some Simple Plan song lyrics or something. The rhyme scheme compromises everything. I don't like that!

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/21/2009, 10:37 pm

Ugh, pink eye blows. I've had it far too many times in my life.

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 4/22/2009, 9:13 am

xjsb125 wrote:Johnny, yes. We had Friday night Smackdown on a guy from Honduras in our parking lot. He stole and then tried to run. One waist-lock slam, full nelson, and a pair of handcuffs later, he cooperated. Luckily our in-store security punched me in the head accidentally while trying to reach around the guy. Good times.

sounds like the time my one buddy decided it was a good idea to plant a homeless dude into a snowbank in the middle of a rather cold montreal day, he (the homeless dude) didnt take kindly to spencer's actions and decided to fight him.. we all thought it was a joke so we didnt do anything (while spence egged him on of course).. then they actually started fightingish... and we jumped in to break it up.. the only guy to actually get clocked with a punch? me.

Kicker774 · Post by **Kicker774** » 4/22/2009, 9:51 am

Shanae wrote:...so I think I'm starting to get pink-eye. (No lie. My eye was red, itchy, and had lots of gunk in it. I think it's getting better now.)

Gah, in English class, our teacher told us to write a rhyming couplet about either:
a) How tough it is to be a teenager or
b) How great it is to be a teenager.

I chose a, of course. Writing about that sort of thing doesn't bother me, but when you have to make it into a rhyming couplet? Ehhh... feels like I should just write down some Simple Plan song lyrics or something. The rhyme scheme compromises everything. I don't like that!

I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare.
I'm just a kid I know that it's not fair.

etc etc.

MindsOnLoan · Post by **MindsOnLoan** » 4/22/2009, 9:00 pm

Wow, I love how my page-baby wishes terrible things upon people.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/22/2009, 9:41 pm

That was a pretty good one, I must admit.

Shanae · Post by **Shanae** » 4/22/2009, 10:08 pm

Kicker774 wrote:
Shanae wrote:...so I think I'm starting to get pink-eye. (No lie. My eye was red, itchy, and had lots of gunk in it. I think it's getting better now.)

Gah, in English class, our teacher told us to write a rhyming couplet about either:
a) How tough it is to be a teenager or
b) How great it is to be a teenager.

I chose a, of course. Writing about that sort of thing doesn't bother me, but when you have to make it into a rhyming couplet? Ehhh... feels like I should just write down some Simple Plan song lyrics or something. The rhyme scheme compromises everything. I don't like that!

I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare.
I'm just a kid I know that it's not fair.

etc etc.

I woke up it was seven,
Waited 'til eleven...

Ahhhh, memories.

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 4/22/2009, 10:37 pm

ahh teenage life. when things were so simple and easy.

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 4/23/2009, 6:24 am

Simple and easy? Life is a nightmare! Nobody cares 'cause you're alone and the world is having more fun than you!

No you don't know what it's like. Welcome to my life!

...Do people really still listen to Simple Plan?

Kicker774 · Post by **Kicker774** » 4/23/2009, 9:32 am

AnnieDreams wrote:...Do people really still listen to Simple Plan?

Shanae brought them up and it triggered my memories crica 2002
I've had the song stuck in my head for the past day.

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 4/23/2009, 12:16 pm

That's kind of tragic.

Shanae · Post by **Shanae** » 4/23/2009, 6:14 pm

For that rhyming couplet I mentioned, we had the option to do how awesome or how tough it is to be a teenager. We had just read a poem called, "It's Tough Being a Teenager," so I assumed that my classmates would chose that as a topic. Two other kids and I were the ONLY ones to choose it. These poems are going to be posted in the hallway. Everyone's going to be like, "Gee, life is swell!" and mine is going to be like, "I'm a teenager and nobody understands what I feel!"

Awesome.

MindsOnLoan · Post by **MindsOnLoan** » 4/23/2009, 7:48 pm

Does anyone remember the Hunky Newcomer from Conan O'Brien? I was wondering because everytime he walked on screen they played the same Simple Plan song...

*Conan's in the middle of talking when Hunky Newcomer walks in*

"Conan..."

*Begins playing "Did you ever feel like breaking down/Did you ever feel out of place/Like somehow you just don't belong/And no one understands you" as he and Conan give a love at first sight look*

"Yes?"

"Could you tell me where the Pepsi machine is?"

"Go down the hall and it should be on the left."

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 4/23/2009, 8:24 pm

Shanae wrote:The rhyme scheme compromises everything. I don't like that!

Not really. The rhyme scheme actually forces you to choose your words very carefully. It's just like meter - when you're stuck in a rigid format, it's more difficult to get what you want, so you have to think about it harder. Therefore, every word becomes deliberate, where if you're not following such a strict format you may have unnecessary words - your poem may not be as deliberate.

That said, I hate reading rhyming poems

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 4/23/2009, 8:39 pm

I hate meters.
I mean, if it's the word with the most appropriate meaning or connotations, I wanna use it. I don't care whether or not it's a trochee!

beautiful liar · Post by **beautiful liar** » 4/24/2009, 6:38 pm

i love metrics, and rhyme too actually. that said, i dislike the limitations of most traditional formalism, except when someone like ken babstock comes along and pwns it.

i much prefer language poetry, personally.

Waiting to Exist · Post by **Waiting to Exist** » 4/24/2009, 8:35 pm

I'm a big fan of meter and rhyme. It doesn't necessarily make the best poems to read, but it's far more fun for me to write. If I had no restrictions, I wouldn't even know where to begin.

Granted, I don't do poetry. But I've written songs, and some of the concepts are the same.

Shanae · Post by **Shanae** » 4/24/2009, 11:25 pm

myownsatellite wrote:
Shanae wrote:The rhyme scheme compromises everything. I don't like that!

Not really. The rhyme scheme actually forces you to choose your words very carefully. It's just like meter - when you're stuck in a rigid format, it's more difficult to get what you want, so you have to think about it harder. Therefore, every word becomes deliberate, where if you're not following such a strict format you may have unnecessary words - your poem may not be as deliberate.

That said, I hate reading rhyming poems

It does make sense, yes. But when I read poems with AA/BB/CC rhyme schemes, everything seems so much cheesier. I'm sure I will get good marks on it though, seeming as my classmates' poems are like, "I love being a teen, you get to go green, I can drive a car, and sneak into the bar."

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/25/2009, 10:23 am

Hey, that sounds like the poems I came up with when they forced me to in high school! :lol:

(Cept that I did literally none of those things.)

*not a poet*.... *at all*